The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies PDF

Edited by Kirsteen Kim, Knud Jorgensen, Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga

Part of the Oxford Handbooks series

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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide.

It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents.

It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in missionstudies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic.

Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies.

Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where mostChristians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'.

Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.